Free shop floor diagnostic

Why does your production schedule keep going off course?

In 2 minutes, get a personalized diagnosis of what's actually breaking your shop floor schedule — and a hard-dollar estimate of what slippage is costing you this year.

Start the diagnostic
~2 min · No credit card · Email required
34,000
U.S. metal fab shops
~4 mo
Avg. order backlog
18%
Of work on hold
Your shop floor healthAt Risk
47
/ 100
Top root causeInaccurate estimating
Annual cost of slippage≈ $284,000
Recommended next stepEstimating-tied scheduling

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If any of this sounds familiar

You're not fighting a scheduling problem. You're fighting a diagnosis problem.

When the schedule goes off course, most shops treat the symptoms — pulling in temp staff, outsourcing the overflow, apologizing to customers. The whitepaper this tool is built on shows that the root cause is almost always upstream: in estimating accuracy and shop floor visibility. The diagnostic tells you exactly where yours is.

  • Orders shipping late more often than you'd like
  • Margins coming in lower than the quote
  • Rework, scrap, and quality escapes creeping up
  • Operators on perpetual overtime
  • Machines or people sitting idle waiting for material
  • Tribal knowledge walking out the door at retirement

How it works

Three steps. Two minutes. Zero fluff.

01

Tell us about your shop

Industry, size, and how you schedule today. 30 seconds.

02

Rate your symptoms

The six warning signs from the MIE whitepaper, scored by severity.

03

Get your personalized report

Health score, top root causes, annual cost estimate, and the exact ERP capabilities that fix it.

Built on real implementation experience

The diagnosis comes from 40+ years of fixing real shops.

MIE Solutions builds MIE Trak Pro — the ERP used by sheet metal fabricators, precision engineers, and discrete manufacturers across the U.S. The diagnostic encodes what our implementation specialists actually look for when they walk a customer's floor.

"When you're experiencing problems, it's difficult to know where to start. You recognize the symptoms — like missed delivery dates — but it could be many different factors. We take it right back to quoting."

Brad Stringfellow — Solutions Consultant, MIE Solutions

Two minutes from now, you'll know exactly what's wrong.

No 7-page PDF to download. No sales call to schedule. Just answers, on screen, immediately.

Start the diagnostic